Creating Multiuser Web3D Applications Embedded in Web Pages

Executive Summary

It is not common to find web pages that show interactive multi-user 3D virtual environments as part of their contents without requiring special plug-ins for the web browser to be able to execute such an application. This paper presents a new architecture based on Java technology to create web portals which include 3D virtual scenarios that many users may share whose actions in that environment can incur in automatic updating of the rest of the portal's contents, without requiring any special additional software to be displayed by or installed into any browser.